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Jack Hobbs

John Berry Hobbs

Born: 16 December 1882, Cambridge
Died: 21 December 1963, Hove, Sussex
Major Teams: Surrey, Maharaj Kumar of Vizianagram's XI, England.
Known As: Jack Hobbs
Batting Style: Right Hand Bat
Bowling Style: Right Arm Medium


Test Debut: England v Australia at Melbourne, 2nd Test, 1907/08
Last Test:
England v Australia at The Oval, 5th Test, 1930

Knighted for services to cricket 1953
Wisden Cricketer of the Year 1909, 1926
Selected as one of five Wisden cricketers of the century, 2000

Career Statistics:

TESTS
 (career)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding   61  102   7  5410  211   56.94  15  28   17   0

                    Balls    M     R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10    SR  Econ
Bowling               376   15   165    1 165.00  1-19    0   0 376.0  2.63

FIRST-CLASS
 (career: 1905 - 1934)
                      M    I  NO  Runs   HS     Ave 100  50   Ct  St
Batting & Fielding  834 1325 107 61760  316*  50.70 199 273  340   0

                       R    W    Ave   BBI    5  10
Bowling             2704  108  25.03  7-56    3   0

- Explanations of First-Class and List A status courtesy of the ACS.


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Jack Hobbs is a strong candidate for the greatest batsman ever, with a career that was interrupted by the first world war, but still resulted in 197 centuries. Although growing up in Cambridge, he played for Surrey, and became the consumate opening batsman, with a solid defence and a powerful attacking game, showing mastery of most strokes. He was known as one of the best runners between the wickets in the game, especially with his regular opening partners, Hayward for Surrey, and Sutcliffe for England. He was remarkable in his ability to play high quality bowling on bad pitches, especially Australian sticky wickets. He was also a splendid fielder, running out many from his favoured position in the covers, and a respectable fast-medium change bowler. "He had all the gifts of a great batsman. They included the qualities of understanding and sensitivity to a degree that made him unique. Others scored faster; hit the ball harder; more obviously murdered bowling. no one else, though, ever batted with more consumate skill than his, which was based essentially on an infallible sympathy with the bowled ball. Although he could improvise with quite impish virtuosity, it is no exaggeration to say that frequently- even generally- the spectator felt that the stroke he played seemed so natural as to be inevitableor as if a chreographer had designed it as the rhythmically and poetically logical consequence of the bowler's delvery." From "Jack Hobbs- profile of 'the Master'" by John Arlott, Published by John Murray, 1981. (David Liverman, Jan 1998)

* Last Updated: Monday, 29-Jul-2002 11:03:20 GMT


 
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